HUDIKSVALL, Sweden, Dec 30 (UNHCR) – One evening last summer, Ibrahim Nur and his family stepped out of a bus and looked out over the Baltic Sea. The air was crisp and all they could hear was the sound of the waves hitting the shore.

Finally, after 13 years as refugees in Somalia and Yemen, they had found a new home. But it was one where climate, culture and environment could barely be more different to the baking-hot Horn of Africa where persecution and conflict had matched their every step.